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- Plato (one of the greatest philosophers and thinkers of Western culture)

After the two sides set up their positions aggressively, Hannibal took the lead and let his Libyan spearmen begin to advance slowly, followed by the Iberian infantry and Punic infantry; At the end of the battle formation were the two thousand infantry of the Holy Order led by Hannibal himself.

Unfortunately, the situation on the battlefield this time was not as simple and straightforward as Hannibal imagined; After the merger of Quintus's central army and Luquis's right flank, the command of the entire Augustus army was rightfully taken over by Luquis.

After watching Hannibal's army advance slowly, Luquis immediately ordered all the hoplites to form tortoiseshell formations in hundreds; The frontal guards were led by the Spartan heavy infantry in a phalanx of spears.

Behind these hoplites were more than 2,000 Cretan archers; Although they had been shooting for nearly twenty rounds, they could only hold on to the fight in order to achieve the final victory.

However, this time, Oscar did not need the soldiers on the front line to continue to fight hard; As Hannibal's Libyan spearmen advanced to less than a hundred meters from the Augustus family army, Oscar's deployed equipment troops finally wielded their might!

The thirty-six stone crossbows of the three legions were projected at the same time towards the enemy's battle array; At the same time, the one hundred and forty-four ballistas under Oscar's personal command also began to let out their own roars!

The assault group, consisting of 36 stones and 144 crossbow arrows, was tantamount to a meteorite from the sky in later fantasy novels, which made all the Libyan spearmen fight from the heart.

In fact, the ballista troops in Oscar's hands are not all ballistae that fire crossbow arrows, but also a considerable number of artillery ballistas; However, in order to better kill the enemy army, Oscar had already asked the soldiers to change the ballista before the battle, and all the ballista guns were changed to crossbow arrows, which also increased the damage to the enemy.

Of course, the biggest harm of this move is that it directly leads to the fact that the ballista troops, which were originally sufficient, suddenly became insufficient; At the moment of the decisive battle, Oscar had to give up all his worries and fight with all his might!

Huge boulders and whizzing crossbow arrows smashed viciously into the phalanx of Libyan spearmen; In the face of such an irresistible attack, the Libyan spearmen could only resist with their own flesh and blood, and could not dodge.

After the Libyan spearmen who had been in a neat formation withstood this round of heavy blows, the entire battle formation instantly became sparse; Countless Libyan spearmen were smashed by boulders, but many more Libyan spearmen were pierced by crossbow arrows.

However, all this did not affect the morale of the Libyan spearmen, who were not deterred by the fierce blows of the Augustus army, but desperately began to accelerate the attack on the Augustus army!

These Hannibal armies from Carthage were indeed worthy of being the elite armies under Hannibal's command; The courage and will to fight that they burst out in battle are not inferior to the soldiers of the Augustus family!

The adversary's relentlessness only spurred the Augustus Armament to attack more aggressively, and the warriors of the Armament Unit, before the Libyan spearmen could reach the Augustus battle, fired another round of crossbow arrows.

After this round of catapult attacks and two rounds of crossbow bolts, Hannibal's 6,000 Libyan spearmen were already less than 4,000; At least more than 500 soldiers died on the spot, but many more were crippled and lay on the ground wailing in pain.

The decisive attack of the Libyan spearmen was also deliberately arranged by Hannibal, and the equipment troops that Oscar had not used had long been discovered by Hannibal; In order to reduce the casualties of the large army, Hannibal had no choice but to sacrifice the Libyan spearmen in exchange for the opportunity to fight between the two armies!

After the Libyan spearmen reached the front line of the Augustus family's battle formation, Oscar had no choice but to order the equipment troops to immediately give up and continue the attack; At the same time, Hannibal gave the order for an all-out attack on his army!

On the battlefield, marching trumpets and shouts of killing erupted from the ranks of both sides, and the teams that entered close range pounced on each other, and the clash of spears and swords erupted violently.

Hannibal's troops were seasoned veterans, not only energetic, but also orderly in advance and retreat, and despite being attacked from three sides, they were still unchaotic and stable. Although the frontal army of the House of Augustus went all out, they could only draw with Hannibal's army, and they could not take advantage of it at all.

The Libyan spearmen were no match for the Spartan heavy infantry and the Janissaries, but the battle continued fiercely with the support of the subsequent Punic infantry and Iberian infantry.

Because the battle formation of the Augustan family was too wide, it directly led to a serious lack of depth; Therefore, Hannibal's army was unable to defeat the army of House Augustus even locally, but it maintained the momentum of the assault.

As Hannibal continued to use military trumpets to motivate his troops, Hannibal's army became more and more fierce, and there was a tendency to break through the Augustan family battle formation in one fell swoop; In order to stabilize the battle formation, Luquis and Quintus have even personally led their guards into battle!

Such a tragic battle was the first for both the House of Augustus and Hannibal; Even in the last decisive battle, Hannibal didn't fight so hard, but this battle was so difficult for him!

The tragic battle between the soldiers of the two armies, accompanied by the sound of Jin Ge's fighting, and the scene of blood and flesh flying, made the entire battlefield look extremely cruel, like hell on earth.

Oscar couldn't really just watch his own battle formation be broken through by Hannibal's army; So, ten minutes after Luquis and Quintus joined the battle, Oscar finally ordered the ironclad cavalry he had been hiding all along!

Immediately after Oscar's order, the trumpeters behind him blew another low and far-reaching trumpet; With the sound of the trumpet, there was a sound of shaking the earth and shaking the mountains in the distance!

Such a voice, Hannibal as a god of war who is good at using cavalry, is too clear, it is the galloping sound of a large-scale cavalry charge; Could it be that the House of Augustus is still hiding a large elite cavalry?

By this point in the battle, both sides were on the verge of collapse; Once the Augustans put in a new force, the tide of the war would be completely turned around by the Augustus, a prediction that Hannibal could not accept!

Under Hannibal's nervous gaze, the two thousand ironclad cavalry of the Augustus family finally slowly appeared in the distance; Looking at the two thousand charging ironclad cavalry, Hannibal's heart was relieved.

No matter how strong these two thousand ironclad cavalry are, it is only two thousand, and it is impossible to change the situation on the battlefield at once; What's more, there is still one last living force under Hannibal's command that has not been used!

After discovering these two thousand ironclad cavalry, Hannibal also immediately sent the last remaining two thousand infantry of the Holy Order in his hands; Their task is to block the two thousand ironclad cavalry rushing to the death!

The ironclad cavalry is the king of the cavalry; And the infantry of the Holy Order is also the king of the infantry of the Kingdom of Carthage. In the duel between the two sides, the ironclad cavalry must have more advantages, but it is not so simple to decide the winner immediately.

As it was, the mighty ironclad cavalry relied on its own assault to break through the six lines of defense of the Holy Order infantry in one fell swoop; Then, it was intercepted. The ironclad cavalry, which had lost their mobility, had to get bogged down in a melee with the infantry of the Holy Order.

Although the Order's infantry also paid nearly half of the casualties to intercept the ironclad cavalry, its strategic purpose was achieved; Oscar's trump card did not work, and the situation on the battlefield returned to a frontal and anxious melee.

The stalemate of the battle line advanced and retreated, and the physical strength of the Augustus soldiers reached the limit; Although Oscar constantly motivates his troops with the sound of marching horns, the consequences of such a delay are unpredictable.

However, this time Lady Luck smiled at Oscar and the Augustus army; Just when Oscar was anxious, smoke and dust rose from the sky, and with the sound of horses' hooves, Licinius and Coclelis, who had been chasing the enemy's cavalry, returned to the battlefield!

The morale of the Augustus army was boosted, and they gathered the last of their strength to storm the enemy once again. The cavalry of the Augustan army, which returned to the battlefield, immediately launched an attack on Hannibal from behind enemy lines, so that Oscar's carefully arranged encirclement was finally closed at the most opportune moment, perfectly reproducing the pattern of Cannae's battle, except that Hannibal was besieged this time.

In the face of the siege, Hannibal's army put up a stubborn and unyielding resistance; Unfortunately, after all, the general trend has gone, with the death of the outer soldiers, the encirclement of the Augustus army is getting smaller and smaller, and this victorious army, which has been invincible in the Mediterranean for several years, has lost room for maneuver, and finally suffered their first and final defeat, and the whole army is annihilated!

The veterans who followed Hannibal for more than ten years, everyone stood proudly, the enemy soldiers swarmed and approached unmoved, and the blood spattered on the battlefield without fear, writing a singing and crying chapter for the end of this legendary legion.

In particular, the veterans of the Punic infantry and the Iberian infantry, under the attack of the Augustan army, completely abandoned all formations and defenses, and began to fight the Augustus soldiers in a desperate way.

If it weren't for the large number of hoplites of the Augustan family, and the fact that all the generals had already entered the battle with the guards, the already unstable encirclement would definitely not be able to block the entire Hannibal army.

At the most critical moment, Hannibal personally led his Centurion into the decisive battle; With Hannibal's example, his army almost broke through the encirclement. Unfortunately, the ironclad cavalry, who had completely wiped out the infantry of the Holy Order, returned in time, and in one fell swoop they routed Hannibal's army, which had almost broken through the encirclement; It's a perfect end to this battle! (To be continued.) )